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The United Nations University Institute for Sustainability and Peace, based in Japan, is inviting applications for the 2011 postgraduate programme, the Master of Science in Sustainability, Development, and Peace.

Global environmental problems sometimes appear to be beyond our control as individuals. The reality is that UN staff can contribute a lot in their day-to-day lives to building a more sustainable world – beginning in their own organizations.

The UNDP’s project is Cyprus has become a model for embedding sustainability into both programmes and day-to-day operations. And as active supporters of Greening the Blue, they are keen to share their story with other UN colleagues around the world.

A new website launched by the World Bank shows that efforts to reduce its environmental footprint have succeeded in achieving major reductions in the institution’s resource consumption.
Greenhouse gas emissions from the multilateral development bank...

Happy 20th Birthday to the Human Development Report! Drawing on the vision of Mahbub ul Haq and the work of Amartya Sen, the first Human Development Report was published by UNDP in 1990 and opened with the premise that “people are the real wealth of...

As part of a concerted effort to 'green' UN peacekeeping operations, an intensive training programme for UN peacekeeping missions on environmental matters is taking place at UNEP headquarters in Nairobi.

Millions of people across the globe will be cleaning up their local parks, waterways and forests in a bid to restore and protect nature this weekend, in support of the United Nations 2010 International Year of Biodiversity.

Less air travel, more e-conferences and ‘green meetings’ to catalyze climate neutral strategyThe United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is today publishing an ambitious new strategy to reduce its carbon footprint and pave the way towards a zero...

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"Climate change is an extremely serious threat… urther to supporting our member States’ efforts, the UN has to walk the talk and take measures to reduce its own carbon footprint.”Christian Friis Bach, Executive Secretary, Economic Commission for Europe (ECE)